Ameraucana vs Easter Egger debacle

[zrodimel]

I apologize in advance for asking. I know there's all kinds of threads like this and resources for telling them apart, but I just can't figure out what's what.

Pictured below is 3 Ameraucanas and 3 Easter Eggers. However, I'm not sure which 3 are which. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Zach

 

[Blackberry18]

The three dark ones are Easter Eggers. The three buff ones aren't Easter Eggers or Ameraucanas, they have yellow legs. The two buff ones with white are Red Sex-Links, while the one with the black tail is a hatchery New Hampshire. It's hard and rare to actually get pure Ameraucanas these days, pure ones are extremely expensive. They have beards and cheek puffs, and grey/green/bluish legs, according to the variety, like this Blue Ameraucana:

 

[Michael OShay]

The three dark ones are Easter Eggers. The three buff ones aren't Easter Eggers or Ameraucanas, they have yellow legs. The two buff ones with white are Red Sex-Links, while the one with the black tail is a hatchery New Hampshire. It's hard and rare to actually get pure Ameraucanas these days, pure ones are extremely expensive. They have beards and cheek puffs, and grey/green/bluish legs, according to the variety, like this Blue Ameraucana:

I agree.

 

[K Spot]

x2

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

x3.

 

[donrae]

What Blackberry said.

You won't get Ameraucana from a feed store. If you get one from a breeder, it will usually be more expensive, and the tell is always the color. A true breeder of any pure bred bird will be able to tell you what color(s) they breed. If I bred Plymouth Rocks, for example, I would say I had barred Rocks and white Rocks. True Ameraucana breeders will have a few colors they specialize in--black, wheaton, etc. If they say "they're gold and black" or something similar, they're Easter eggers.

 

[junebuggena]

I apologize in advance for asking. I know there's all kinds of threads like this and resources for telling them apart, but I just can't figure out what's what.

Pictured below is 3 Ameraucanas and 3 Easter Eggers. However, I'm not sure which 3 are which. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Zach

Going Left to Right I see a Red sexlink, Black sexlink or Easter Egger, New Hampshire Red, Red sexlink, Easter Egger, Easter Egger.

 

[Michael OShay]

Going Left to Right I see a Red sexlink, Black sexlink or Easter Egger, New Hampshire Red, Red sexlink, Easter Egger, Easter Egger.

I agree. The second one does look like a Black Sex Link and the third one looks like a hatchery grade New Hampshire or Production Red (technically speaking, there is really little or no difference between the two).

 

[junebuggena]

In my profile pic are my ameracauna ( dark one) the other is my Easter egger ( the golden one)

Both are actually Easter Eggers.

 

[junebuggena]

Actually no. I bred them myself and am a certified historical ameracauna heirloom protection breeder and avian vet, with specialty in various chicken breeds. So thanks but no thanks.

I know where my bloodlines come from and I have been breeding ameracaunas 20 yrs and am a certified breeder and work with my local vet school to preserve the bloodline. Actually in the US there are no pure ameracaunas as the blood lines have been diluted out. So there's that.

Please explain to me how a bird that is not a recognized color/variety is an Ameraucana? She looks like a wild-type partridge, and as such, won't breed true.